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Well, hello, everybody. Good evening from a very special place. If you can't tell, I'm a little giddy right now. We are coming to you live from the home of Ronald Reagan. We are out in Santa Barbara, California, in the beautiful mountains, and we just want to thank our good friends at the Young America's foundation for opening up the home of President Reagan, letting us just take place in or take part in this beautiful thing. I'm stumbling over my words right now because I'm so excited. I just got to go look at Ronald Reagan's bookshelf. Okay. This table where my laptop is resting, this is Ronald Reagan's TV table. Okay? So if I seem a little thrown off today, you'll have to have grace for me. When I was in fifth grade, we did a Hall of Heroes presentation in my elementary school, and I got to dress up as Ronald Reagan and do a presentation on Ronald Reagan. And now I'm in his house, so I'm very excited. Thanks again to our friends at Young America's Foundation. We are going to have a great show, though. We're going to talk about the latest on the Iran deal. We're going to talk about some of the tensions between the GOP and President Trump as he works to finalize this agreement. President Trump, in true Trump fashion, said that there'd be a big signing ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, for the Iran deal. And he just went ahead and spur the moment, signed it last night at Versailles over in France. So we're going to tell you all about that. And earlier in the month, we talked about kamikaze dolphins supposedly operating in the Strait of Hormuz. Well, now China says that there are weaponized sea turtles that are ravaging their waters. That is a real story. We're going to tell you about that. And then at the very end, we're going to give you a little show and tell with the director of the ranch, we're going to go look around here at this hollowed ground, Ronald Reagan's home. We're going to show you guys some of the cool artifacts that are here and just give you a better feel for what it's like here. So stick around to the very end for that. And of course, Daily Wire members, you will have access to our live member Q and A. So if you're listening on Apple and Spotify, we love you, we appreciate you, but go become a member so that you can join our live chat@dailywire.com subscribe. All right, it's going to be a very special episode of Wired in. Let's roll that graphic. And look at that right here on set with Me, Daily Wire D.C. bureau Chief Tim Rice. Tim, it's good to see you, man.
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Kevin, it is so, so great to see you in person. And just to echo what you said, what an amazing opportunity to be here. We've had the cool.
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Can we just acknowledge how cool this is? We're in Ronald Reagan's living room right now. Tim, I know that you are a fellow book nerd like me. The coolest moment so far today, which we'll elaborate on a bit, we saw President Reagan's bookshelf. My favorite book of all time is Lonesome Dove. I've told people on the show forever to read it. I tried to get my wife to name our son Augustus after Augustus McCrae. I look over next to one of these cool chairs by the fireplace and, and there's one book on the table next to that chair, and it's Lonesome Death.
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Yeah, I know.
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I'm very excited about it.
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It's amazing. It's a very cool, it's an honor to be here and very excited to be able to do this live.
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So let's get to the news. Tim. President Trump last night signing the peace deal with Iran, not in Switzerland, which was the plan with Marco Rubio and J.D. vance and Jared Kushner, but President Trump signing it at Versailles. Some obvious symbolism there. But what do you make of him jumping the gun a little bit and signing it early?
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It's hard to say. I do think that my immediate thought when I saw it was that someone in his circle made the comment about the Treaty of Versailles and the various different treaty. Right. Because there's the one that ended World War I, the one that I think there's a Treaty of Paris, ended the American Revolution. So somewhat similar. Right? And I think someone probably said that and the president thought you know, wow, what a moment to make history. I also think that there is, to a certain extent, as we're going to discuss in a minute and you know, as everyone's sort of talking about, this has been a very controversial deal within the president's caucus, within the Republican Party and his ally among his allies. So I think wanting to get it done, sign it, and then be able to sort of just, you know, you kind of take back control of the conversation from the White House's perspective, instead of all this speculation about what could or could be in it, any, any attempt to kind of, you know, weasel out or whittle out different carve outs or additions in the last second. Once it's done, then we can see, as the vice President did today, the White House can go on message and say, this is the deal, here's why
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it's good, take it or leave it.
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I can't help but wonder if President Trump felt at home at Versailles, this beautiful palace. I'm sure I don't know how much gold trim there is. I think there's a fair amount, that there's a lot. Maybe he just felt at home and said, oh, this feels as good a place as to sign this thing. You mentioned the opposition to this deal. We know that there's going to be Democrat opposition to virtually anything Donald Trump does. However, there's been a significant level of GOP opposition to this deal. What does that tell you? You're reporting on Capitol Hill. What does it say? Is this an emboldened GOP now? And what should we make of this?
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Well, it's really interesting, Gabbit, because as we've discussed on this show before, right. We've seen a lot of kind of what you're getting at. The Republicans getting a little bit more emboldened to basically, two years into a lame duck presidency, they're starting to figure out who Trump's successor will be. We're looking at the midterms. So there is both incentive and kind of security for Republicans who want to run away from the president. So I think it's partially that. But what's curious about this is that it's actually the very. It's kind of like the rear guard of the Republican Party taking advantage of that, because the opposition we're seeing is from the Tom Cotton's, the Lindsey Graham's, the. I don't want to use the term neocon or, you know, war hawk, but these are the terms people would use. The people who were pro intervention, who have been pro intervention from the beginning, since before the beginning of this operation in Iran, and who wanted to see either full regime change or just a total decimation of the regime. And really, the issue is, right, there's a lot of comparisons between this memorandum of Understanding, they're calling it, and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which was the Obama Iran deal. The Obama deal, they called it. There are a lot of similarities. I think some of the comparisons are unfair. But the ultimate issue here is that there are certain people, and I think that there's a logic to this, like I see the case, who think that any deal with Iran is necessarily leaving the door open for Iran to exploit, to take advantage, to go back on their terms because the Iranian regime is not trustworthy. And so, yes, there are some similarities, including many things that the president himself criticized about the Obama deal. But part of this is just the nature of dealing with Iran. If you're going to get in bed with a fundamentally distrustworthy and sort of nefarious partner, there's always going to be that possibility. They'll look to exploit it.
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And I think it's interesting, the response from the Trump administration to accusations that, hey, this is the Obama deal 2.0. They have said, well, when Obama made that deal, he had not just bombed their missile nuclear program into oblivion. President Trump is coming at this with more leverage and saying, hey, if you guys violate the deal, I'm not Obama, I'm not going to send you more money. I'm going to bomb you again. And so that has been what the White House has said. What we've also heard from the White House today was very interesting. J.D. vance took the podium and had some, in no uncertain terms, criticism of the Israeli government, specifically the Israeli Cabinet. I want to play that clip. It's a little bit longer, but I want to play it because it is very important. It's something that we have not necessarily seen to this level up until this month with the White House kind of breaking ranks with the Israeli government. Let's play that clip right now.
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Now, I saw the Axios report. You know that Netanyahu is fuming. That's not reflective of the conversations that I've had with him. But maybe he's saying something to somebody else that he's not saying to me. What I will say, and this does bother me, is that you have seen people within Bibi's cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal and in some ways, very personally attacked the president of the United States. And I guess my message to them would be twofold. Number one, Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world. And the second message I would give to some of those cabinet members, Bibi, to his credit, has not gone down this path, but to some of these cabinet members in Israel who are attacking the president United States. The other thing that I would say is that over the last three months, 2/3 of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars. The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump. And anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in. Thank you.
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So Vice President Vance, again, pretty strong terms there, calling out, not necessarily Bibi Netanyahu saying, implying at least that he's hearing different things behind closed doors when it comes to Bibi, but appearing to call out his cabinet pretty strongly and telling the Israelis, hey, we're not your enemy. We're still the lone country on the global stage that's standing with you. What do you make of that back and forth?
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I think that it's two things, and one to your point. Right. I think the vice president took care, albeit a kind of very stern tone of reminding, almost sort of, kind of. It almost seemed like he's trying to shame the cabinet members. Right. Like, really, you're going to turn around now after all the support that we have given and continue to give, you know, this alliance, obviously, President Trump throughout this term, post October 7th with Iran, but even going back to his first term, right, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, he was a very, you know, pro Israel president, one of the most pro Israel presidents that we've ever had. But this is all sort of in the context of this fascinating turn that the White House is taking, and it started to take in the past couple of days, which is not diverging from Israel, but really asserting the fact that the United States has its own interest in this and sort of look, and I would say, I think, you know, if you ask the vice president, he would say that the Israelis were the ones that sort of moved first on this. Right. The president was negotiating the deal. It was very clear. Everyone, you know, acknowledged the Israelis are not party to that deal. They're not negotiating with Iran. That's perfectly fine and understandable. But the president scolded Netanyahu when he struck the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now we have this kind of excoriation from the vice president. I think, again, it's very they're walking a narrow line, but I think they're threading the needle. Right. Of saying we're still your strongest ally and we're still here for you. But, like, just as they want to eliminate you, they also want to eliminate us. Just as you're involved in this conflict, we're involved in this conflict. And just as you want to prevent boots on the ground, lives lost, long entanglements with Iran, so do we. And so at the end of the day, the president's primary and sole responsibility, you would say, right. Is to the American people and to American national security. Yeah.
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Well, it is a fascinating, evolving relationship as this war goes on. And as you mentioned, as there start to be some, some differing end goals for this conflict and you're kind of seeing that play out in real time, but fascinating stuff. We're going to keep a very close eye on Tim. Thank you for coming here and kind of ranch mogging. Me.
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You've got the ranch attire on. I didn't get the memo.
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I'm going to go herd some cattle after this. I know.
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You look ready. Got to hear about President Reagan and his love of riding on horses and how he had sort of a gentleman's ranch. He didn't have a ton of cows. The eight to 10 cattle, that's exactly the gentleman's ranch. So you're ready for it. I'm not. I don't even have my cowboy boots on today. Unfortunately, this would have been placed to wear it, but. Tim rice, Daily Wire D.C. bureau Chief, thanks for coming on, man.
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Thanks, Kevin.
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All right. Very exciting news from the Daily Wire this week. We have a new host and it's not me. It's someone who is far smarter than I am. We can be honest. It's Matt Nuclear, his new show he's going to be streaming on the Daily Wire. We're so excited about it. If you've seen Matt Nuclear, any of his clips, you know how good he is. He's gone viral on Jubilee, spreading truth. He's kind of the new version of Ben Shapiro, destroying people with facts and logic. Have a look at the trailer for his new show and go check it out. If you have not already, one very
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young man absolutely slaughtered Amanda Seals. Poisonous ideology.
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That's just the truth.
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And you're un American. You're uneducated and your IQ is around 50.
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This is a master class.
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Why are you so scared to debate the truth? You've been making this about Israel. You, sir, are a hypocrite. It is Matt Nuclear.
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Matt Nuclear.
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Matt Nuclear.
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I have to teach you this stuff.
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Am I allowed to say that I'm jealous of that trailer? We had a great trailer here on Wired in, but that trailer was pretty sick. I'm just going to be completely honest. Go check out Matt Nuclear's new show on Daily Wire. It's really cool stuff. Well, we picked a good time to visit California because there is a lot going on here. All month we've been talking about the gubernatorial race, the LA mayoral primary that just happened a few weeks ago. And of course, Gavin Newsom is always in the news lately because he's claiming that he's under DOJ investigation. And who better to help us break all of this down than Joel Pollack, the opinion editor at the California Post. Joel, great to have you, man. All right, Joel, I want to make sure. Can you hear me, Joel?
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Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me?
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Okay, we got him. We got him. Okay, we're, you know, we're up on top of a mountain right now at the Reagan range, so I didn't know how good our WI fi is. I'm back. Very glad to hear that, Joel. We have to start. We have to start in la. Karen Bass and Nithya Rahman are now advancing to the general election in November. This was a lot of controversy. It looked like Spencer Pratt on election night was going to pull it out. Nithya Rahman was in a distant second, 22%, the day after the election. She then killed it when it came to the mail in ballots and the ballots that were counted after Election Day. President Trump has said there was fraud that went down. Do you believe that there was any funny business in this race?
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Well, I do believe there were some. I don't know that it would have been enough to swing the outcome. But Democrats have perfected the art of making what might be considered fraud in other contexts perfectly legal. Not just in California, but especially in California. So practices like signing up homeless people and then perhaps, we suspect, but we don't know for sure yet, but perhaps taking their ballots and making sure that they were returned for the right quote Unquote candidates. That's perfectly legal in California as long as you do it a certain way. And that's what we see happening. And it is frustrating to many people who think that the city and the state really need new leadership. It is very frustrating. Now, there were some early polls saying that Raman could be in second anyway for a variety of reasons. But it was really odd because she doesn't really have a broad base across the city and she did very poorly in the one debate that they had. She doesn't really even seem to have a reason for running. So she was not expected to do well. And she was in third place on election night by eight points, which is why her eventual comeback is so surprising and to many people, disheartening. It does feel a little odd to have candidates leaving on election night who then lose several days and sometimes weeks later.
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Now we saw New York City famously elect a socialist mayor in Zoran Mamdani, Washington, D.C. this week looks to be the next city to elect a socialist mayor with their election on Tuesday. Do you think LA goes that route? Rahman is a proud, self proclaimed socialist. Do you think that she pulls this out ultimately against incumbent Karen Bass?
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Well, she could. She has the momentum right now because she is the underdog and she came from behind in perhaps dubious fashion. But when you do that sort of thing, you do get more attention and people start to hope you'll continue going much like the horse that won the Kentucky Derby, started at the back and won the race. We love stories of people who overcome the odds. So even though we might not like her politics, she's more interesting now. She has momentum. She could end up challenging Mayor Karen Bass. On the other hand, Karen Bass is much better at governing. And even though she is unpopular, she did look better on the debate stage than Nithya Rahman.
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Let's get to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who this month is saying that he's under investigation by the doj. Do you think this goes anywhere ultimately?
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Well, I think there are reasons to wonder about Gavin Newsom beyond whatever else the federal investigators might be finding. I mean, we know that he solicited millions of dollars from donors for his wife's charity. And that is legal under a California practice called behested payments, where politicians can ask donors to give to charities or nonprofit organizations of the politician's choice. But it does look very shady. It looks like pay to play, especially because some of the companies and donors giving new small these millions had various kinds of business before the state he had the power to affect. What happened to their fishing licenses or what happened to whatever it was they were looking for. And so it raises major conflict of interest questions.
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We know that Gavin Newsom has presidential aspirations in 2028. He even said in his statement to President Trump, one of the reasons that he's going after me is because he knows I'm considering a run for the White House, which is politician code for I'm running for the White House. In a strange, backwards way, do you think that being under investigation by the Trump DOJ actually helps his odds in 2028 and kind of gives him credentials for being the most anti Trump candidate?
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Yes, yes. I mean, it's a good point. That's how Democrats are starting to look at it. First of all, because the person who's most anti Trump is is likely to win the nomination. That's the mood they're in. But secondly, if Trump gets you to react, or you get Trump to react, excuse me, then that shows you have some kind of impact, and he's afraid of you. Now, Trump's not even going to be on the ballot in 2028, nor in 2026. But for Democrats, he is the glue holding the party together. So many of their policies have failed, so many of their constituencies are crumbling, that the one thing they can all agree on is that Donald J. Trump is not for us.
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It's very fascinating watching Gavin Newsom's interviews, because in the debates that he does with Republicans, he's always talking up California, and he's saying what a success story that his state has been, how fantastic his tenure has been. He talks about the economic growth and population growth, failing to mention the actual net migration rates, but that's another topic. But do you think that Americans more broadly look at what's happening in California and say, wait a second. Why would we vote for a guy who hasn't run his state very well? Or do you think that that message will work where they say, well, maybe the media lied to me, Maybe California actually is pretty great?
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There's almost nothing California does as a state and certainly as a state government that any serious person would want to emulate. In fact, there are many cautionary tales from California. But there are some islands of excellence in California. Silicon Valley, for example. Parts of la, even parts of the Central Valley, have been doing incredible things, both in industrial manufacturing and in agriculture. So I think there's a lot to admire about California still, and there's a lot that the private sector can learn by visiting companies in California and seeing how they work. But as for public sector employees, I mean, it's just, there's, there's nothing to recommend in how Gavin Newsom has run his state and really how other blue state governors have run theirs. I mean, there's a reason that all these people are leaving the big blue states now.
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This month we had the anniversary of the Palisades fire, which I know had an enormous impact all across the state. Had an impact on you as well. You've talked pretty openly about how you believe politicians have failed to not just prevent this fire from spreading, but also to help people rebuild afterwards. So we know there was a ton of coverage when the fire happened. There hasn't been as much coverage afterwards. Can you just talk us through what the last year has looked like and how, in your view, Democratic politicians in the state have made the cleanup and rebuilding process worse?
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Well, let me answer those two questions separately, so I'll answer the second part first. Democrats have made it harder generally because they control a super majority in the state legislature and they have passed bills that are focused on other priorities, but not on rebuilding. Gavin Newsom, for example, pushed a $2 billion relief package through the state legislature. I'm not sure what the impact of that has been or where the money has been spent. There are other laws that have been passed like SB79, which allows the state to override local zoning authorities and put low income housing within half a mile of a transit center. No one is around in Palisades right now to object if they do something like that. People feel that there are various interests trying to take advantage of the situation. They say they're doing what they're doing to help the homeless and the poor and the needy, but they're also helping their rich developer friends. So that's what's happening at the state level. It's not to say every Democrat is bad. There have been some who have taken it very seriously. I mean, I could speak for my own area of la. City Council member Tracy park has been incredible. State Senator Ben Allen, who's now running for insurance commissioner, has been very responsive. So I think some Democrats, especially those who represent the affected areas, have been doing very good work. But generally speaking, they're not really helping. Now, what's the last year been like? It's been an adventure. I mean, I'm trying to put a positive spin on it, not just for reasons of persuasion, but because I need to get up in the morning and do what I do and I've got to make, I've got to feel like things are moving in a positive direction or I wouldn't do that. And I think it's been a fight, a series of fights. Fights with the insurance companies, fights with the contractors you try to hire, fights with the city when you try to get permits, fights with law enforcement agencies when you want them to stop criminals and looting, but you don't want them stopping every driver from minor traffic violations in a city that's basically deserted. So I think that government has been a mixed bag. And the only thing that really gives me hope is my neighbors and how organized they've been, because we've organized into different residential groups and people are helping one another and people are excited about every new step towards coming back and reopening everything.
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Yeah. Well, Joel, thank you so much for coming on and giving us the scoop on what's going on in California. We really appreciate your time. That was Joel Pollock, opinion editor at the California Post. Guys, I just happened to look on my monitor and I looked over my shoulder. That right there. No, I went to the wrong side. That is President Ronald Reagan sombrero just casually hanging on a hat behind me. When we were doing a little walkthrough of the house earlier, one of the staff members said, hey, just a reminder, don't touch anything. We're trying to preserve it. And definitely don't put that sombrero on. And that just instantly makes me think, number one, I want to put the hat on. I'm not going to. But number two, it makes me think they must have to specifically say, don't put that sombrero on for a reason. There's a reason. Usually when a single item is pointed out and I just keep looking over my shoulder on the monitor thinking, I really, really want to wear that sombrero, but I'm not going to. All right, let's get down to the great state of Texas, where we have Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Terre standing by. Jenny, I want to get to a story that you've been tracking. This is the alleged terror plot that was going to target the UFC event at the White House this past Sunday. We're just now getting some new details about one of the alleged ringleaders and how it ties in to illegal immigration. Can you tell us what we've learned this week?
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That's right. So we are learning that the alleged ringleader of this UFC terror plot, they were going to go carry out this attack allegedly at the White House during that huge event with many high ranking officials that this suspect, Abraham Alvarez, a 31 year old who is living in Nebraska, is in the US Illegally. Now, the Department of Homeland Security came out this morning, said he came here originally as a child in 2001 on a visitor visa. He then overstayed that visa. Was, you know, the terms of it are you must leave at a certain point. You're here as a tourist. So what did he do? He eventually got DACA protections. He got DACA status from the Obama administration. So it raises a lot of questions as to who is getting DACA status under the Obama administration and still roaming around the country and allegedly plotting to carry out terror attacks like this. This is an alarming situation. And we've seen in the past other DACA recipients who have been caught by I during Trump's mass deportation effort. So it's definitely something that we have to look at a little more.
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What have we heard from the White House? Are there any plans for deportation at this point, or denaturalization or anything of that nature?
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Well, obviously, the White House has been fighting the DACA program and Republicans in Congress. It's something that will be difficult to accomplish deportation in the case of a DACA recipient. But the Trump administration is obviously fighting this case in the courts when it comes to this UFC plot and going after this individual and others who were tied to it, who wanted to. Essentially, what they planned to do was they had. They plotted to put drones in the sky that would have explosives on them and that would go off over the event. And then what it would do is once everyone started evacuating at a certain point, they would all be funneled based on where these drones were operating and when they were funneled to evacuation routes, that's when there would be a secondary strike by snipers who they were planning to place around the area. And there were just some very savvy and coordinated plans that this individual and others were allegedly putting together and have come out since in these charging documents where they were discussing these plans in signal chats and they were inspired by different TikToks and they were arming themselves. And it's all just very, very concerning stuff.
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And you've covered on the Daily Wire. The affidavit that was released has just some terrifying details of how serious this plot appeared to be. And we saw that one of the individuals had allegedly put in the group chat. Here are the people who we're targeting. And there were specific pictures of politicians. Senator Marsha Blackburn from our state of Tennessee was one of those pictures that was sent. It's worth pointing out someone in the chat asked, why are we targeting these specific politicians? And the suspect allegedly told them well, these are people who've received money from Israel, received money from aipac. And the photos that were sent in that chat appeared to have been downloaded directly from a website called, I believe StopAPAC.com or something along that nature. So a very important angle to keep an eye on there. And again, a terrifying plot that seemed to be very serious and we're very grateful that it was ultimately foiled. And I do think also that the suspect's mother deserves credit in this case. We believe that the plot was uncovered because the 19 year old, one of the ringleaders, his mother, became concerned about conversations. He was having conversations. She was overhearing him buying thousands of rounds of ammunition and firearms and talking about a plot that he was going to go do recon in Washington, D.C. and ultimately it appears that she turned him in. And I cannot imagine as a parent how hard that must have been. But I do think there's something commendable about that. Jenny, I want to get to another wild story. This is one that's been developing all year, but there are some new developments that you've been covering that I want to get to in a minute. But this is out of Des Moines where we now know that an illegal immigrant rose to the status of superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools. I want to play a video that you obtained recently. But first, can you just explain this wild story?
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Yeah. So Dr. Ian Roberts, or at least he says he's doctor, had become the superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa public Schools. What they didn't realize was that that individual was an illegal immigrant. And the school system only found that out when he was arrested by ICE a few months ago and taken into custody. And at the time he tried to run from those authorities and he was actually allegedly armed. Now he's speaking out from jail and he's saying that he allegedly or that he ran because of essentially racism. Like he says that. You know, I've watched videos of police encounters. You know, I just didn't want to end up basically in a situation like that because of the color of my skin, because of how I look and very much implied that. But this guy has basically been able to go around the country for years to work in different school systems to get educated, to live here, of course, and all by allegedly gaming the system. And now the Trump administration is putting a stop to that.
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You teased the video. I want to throw to that video. He was doing an interview recently from jail and as you said, he kind of blames racism for why he was resisting arrest. Let's play that clip right now. I've seen the hundreds and hundreds of videos around the country. What happens when someone who looks like me is confronted by law enforcement, certainly under the circumstances where I also had access to firearms. So it was prudent for me to make a decision to protect my own personal safety. Yeah, just, just wild stuff there, Jenny. I want to get to one more story before we let you go. This one involving federal authorities reportedly firing warning shots at a boat packed with Chinese migrants. What happened there?
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Yeah. So a boat that was packed with over a dozen illegal immigrants from China that was trying to make its way to the shores of Florida was stopped by the Coast Guard recently. And they had to really make a mighty attempt to stop them because they initially tried to fire a warning shot at them because they were refusing to comply with their orders. And then of course, that didn't work. And so they had to disable the vessel with another shot and take those individuals into custody. Now, these illegal immigrants are part of this larger string of a flow of people coming through the waterways right now. So not just on the Florida coast, but also in places like San Diego, where federal authorities are still seeing that smugglers are trying to keep their profits. They're trying to do anything they can right now given the border crackdown under President Trump. And so what they're doing is they're getting desperate and they're moving people where they know there are fewer resources and where it's more difficult for those resources to actually be deployed.
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Yeah. Well, we know the southern border has been clamped down on. We're not seeing virtually any attempted illegal crossings, but important to keep an eye on our waters as well and our coastlines. Jenny Tar, Daily Wire Immigration Reporter, thank you so much for coming on. We really appreciate your time.
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F
Thanks for having me.
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A
Well, this week, a Biden appointed federal judge in Idaho banned the state, temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a new law that would have forced residents to use the bathroom that matches their gender at birth and impose criminal penalties on those who do differently. Joining us with more on this story is Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article 3 project. Will, thank you so much for being here. So in this case, six transgender identifying folks in Idaho, they're arguing before the court that this law violates their right to equal protection. Do they have a case?
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I don't think so. Ultimately, I think there is some question about whether under Bostock this is a protected class. But I suspect that ultimately I think the Supreme Court's going to come down in the right way on this. I just don't think you should be. You know, the idea that you're constitutionally required to be allowed to go into the other biological sexist bathroom I think is preposterous. And I think ultimately the court's going to conclude. No, you're not.
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A
If the Supreme Court does ultimately rule on this, and I'm not aware if they have decided to take the case up, what sort of precedent could that set for other red states who want to pass laws like this?
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I think the real thing that the right should be trying to do here, I mean, we want to get bot stock reversed. It was a bad decision when it was written. It tried to write in gender identity into Title ix when that was not Title ix didn't say anything of the sort. It just looks one of those decisions that was wrong when it was decided, obviously wrong when it was decided and should be reversed. And I think much of the cultural milieu and the zeitgeist has moved very, very hard against trans issues. So even libertarians like Gorsuch probably see the folly of their opinion now. That said, I mean, we're still at the early stages here. This is a district court opinion, so, you know, we'll see what happens in the ninth Circuit and then only then will it get to the Supreme Court.
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You mentioned how the transgender issues have kind of taken a little bit of a backseat. It does appear that the left realized how much of an electoral impact it had on for Republicans. President Trump doing that famous ad he's for, for you. President Trump is for or President or Vice President Harris is for they them. Do you think that the left is fully retreated on this issue or do you think it's just kind of they're biding their time and waiting to jump forward on it again?
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C
I wouldn't say they fully retreated. And moreover, whether or not they is, there might be individuals on the left who realize that they're not in a good spot with the Supreme Court. But there are other individuals who just want to yellow and, and fight on these legal issues. And the thing about the legal system is it's not, you know, the left isn't a top down command structure. If individual plaintiffs want to sue, they can sue. So I suspect they're choosing a bad time to do this because I think the court is ready to move, move back in the direction of sanity here.
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A
I know you keep a very close eye on the high court in D.C. tell us about some looming cases coming up this summer that you think could have some, some big implications for the nation. What are the cases that you're keeping an eye on?
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C
Well, I mean, the big one, obviously, I would say that the big one is the birthright citizenship case. That's going to be huge. And then I think there's another case that has to deal with temporary protected status and whether or not the government can revoke it. I think that's going to have big long term effects. But I expect us to prevail on that. And then I think there's another big lingering one, which is. I'm pretty sure I need to look it up exactly. But I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on whether or not the ICE and Homeland Security can indefinitely detain illegal aliens who did not make themselves present in a port of entry. Because that's a really interesting question. There's a sort of interesting statutory interpretation about whether or not these individuals are entitled to Bond. And the 5th Circuit and the 8th Circuit have both said no, but there's another circuit court that said yes. It'll have a big impact on self deportation because the idea is if you're here illegally and you never, and you're one of the people who crossed illegally, never presented yourself at a port of entry, if you're not entitled to bond, then if you get detained, that's it, you get to try and fight and prove that you're illegally and win an asylum claim, which is very unlikely. But you don't get to go back home and pack your things. You're literally just in detention because you have no right to be in the country and you have no right to bond. And so what that means is that it makes self deportation much more appealing because if you know that if ICE picks you up, you could just lose literally everything, all your possessions, you're a lot more likely to try and get your affairs in order, use the self deportation, et cetera. So this is a really, really big deal. I think the administration has the better of the argument here. And I think if the Supreme Court rules in their favor, it's going to do a huge amount in terms of encouraging illegal immigrants to leave.
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A
So you think the administration has the upper hand in that case? Let's get back to birthright citizenship, which is coming before the court soon. Do you believe that they have any realistic chance at getting a ruling in their favor?
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C
They have a chance. I think on the briefing I thought the challengers to birthright citizenship had a better argument than the administration did. And that's because there hadn't really been any originalist work done on the question of the meaning of the 14th amendment and specifically the phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof. That's new work. And there was sort of the reflexive intuition was, well, of course, everybody who's born here is a citizen. But that's just not true. And I mean, the simplest way to understand that that's not true is that it didn't apply to American Indians. American Indians who were born on reservations or even who are the children of people on reservations and born in the territory of the United States were not treated as citizens under the Constitution. They had to be granted citizenship in the 1920s. So this is a much thornier and closer question than I think a lot of people realized. I think, in fact, the defenders of birthright citizenship had the better of the argument. That said, we've already had the oral argument in this case and a number of the justices seem pretty skeptical, so I don't think we'll win it. But I wouldn't say it's out of the question.
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If birthright citizenship is ultimately overturned, we know that the left would very likely quickly make a push to reinstate it. What would the actual legal process for that look like, and how feasible would that be?
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Oh, I mean, if the Supreme Court said that birthright citizenship is not constitutionally required, the solution from the left's perspective would be as simple as a statute. It's not because the Congress has the power of naturalization. People need to understand this is one of the reasons why this is so important, is that this is the floor of citizenship right who must be granted citizenship under our Constitution, who constitutionally cannot have it taken away. And so saying that Chinese birth tourists are entitled to birthright citizenship means even if Congress wants to deal with that issue, they can't.
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A
Well, fascinating stuff, Will. We're going to have you on throughout the summer and fall as these cases continue to roll out. Really appreciate you coming on, man.
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C
Thanks for having me.
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All right, that was Wil Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article 3 project. Let's now bring on our good friend Matt Folde, editor in chief of the Washington Reporter. Matt, it's great to have you back. I want to start with a new piece you've got up on the Washington Reporter. You talked with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about the White House plan to improve American cities, Basically to make sure that American cities don't to seem suck. What are they doing? What did you hear from the secretary?
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Well, obviously, cabbage, congrats on the Apple music and Spotify news. Well deserved for you. And look, I don't understand why this is Controversial, that our cities should be livable. So I was with Doug BURGUM for about four hours, I think, yesterday, two days ago, driving around, we visited four cities in D.C. either to see firsthand what the Trump administration has done thanks to this Make DC Safe and beautiful executive order that President Trump signed. We started off at the top of the Lincoln Memorial. I mean, this felt like we were doing national Treasure. We're at the top of the Lincoln Memorial where we can see the Reflecting Pool. And the Reflecting Pool has been a dump for decades. And Trump and Burgum are trying to undo literally decades of declining Cabot. When you've been here, I'm sure you've seen that the reflecting pool does not reflect, but no one has cared until Trump and Burgum. And now the left is staging pro algae protests at the Reflecting Pool because they're angry that Trump and Burgum are cleaning up their garbage. So we went from the top of the Lincoln Memorial to the top of the Washington Monument, where we could just get another citywide panoramic view. The Washington Monument has historically been a very successful model of public private partnerships. Remember in the earthquake in 2009 here, I think the top of it kind of was cracked. And David Rubenstein stepped in with a lot of money to fix that. And then we went to the most monumental, no pun intended, transformations. We went to Union Station, which for years was a place that you would run away from. And they have a Columbus fountain there. Cabot. I kid you not. I've never been to Italy. I feel like I was in Italy. They have shined this thing up. They removed all the pro Palestinian terrorist graffiti. They made it honestly pristine. And Doug Burgum said that people who've lived in D.C. for decades have said to him, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, is this fountain new? Because normally you would just run out of Union Station. You'd be dodging the homeless like a video game. And now you can actually sit and look at a fountain with running water. It sounds like a low standard, but that's what people have come to expect in the capital of the free world. And then we visited Meridian Hill Park. I'm from Maryland. I'd never heard of Meridian Hill park in my entire life until the Trump administration cleaned it up. And one of the interesting things to me, as you were noting, is that Doug Burgum described what the Trump administration has done as a blueprint. Anyone can do this. Doug Burgum, when he was a private citizen, revitalized downtown Fargo by just donating a Lot of money. Donald Trump, one of the greatest builders in modern American history, J.B. pritzker could do this with Chicago. I went to school in Chicago. There are parts of the city that are literally unsafe for humans to walk around. Why doesn't he do this? Gavin Newsom could do this as governor of California. Zoran Mamdani could do this as mayor of New York City, and they don't do it. Donald Trump and Doug burgam have transformed D.C. the capital of the free world, in just a couple of months, and Democrats don't do this. It's honestly, it's disappointing as an American, as someone who wants our cities to be great and livable, that Democrats choose to not do this. Remember, in California, Gavin Newsom only cleaned up the garbage from the streets when Xi Jinping came. That's the difference in the priorities that I think we see when it comes to city management. Of course, DC Then immediately just nominated a socialist to be the mayor, who will, of course, destroy the city. But at least Republicans are trying to say, cities, you don't have to be like this.
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And I'm glad you used the word choose of saying this is a choice. And I think one of the biggest areas of pushback we've seen to this initiative has been, is this really where the priority needs to be? You know, why are we trying to clean up our fountains and scrub graffiti when we've got inflation and higher gas prices? And first, I would say, you know, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can. We can focus on multiple things. But to that question of, why does this matter? Why does it matter to a culture and to a people to send the message that we're going to have clean places, it's going to feel livable. Why is that so important?
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G
Because, quite frankly, you couldn't walk and chew gum in the streets of D.C. you would be shot. I mean, literally, when Trump sent the National Guard in over the protestations and howls of Democrats, there was no murder in D.C. for the longest time in our lifetimes. This makes a tangible difference. And I have missed doing your show because I've been in other countries and most other countries, wherever you go on earth, with the exception of Londonistan and Paris, that are now Islamic caliphates, the capitals of those countries are beautiful. They're clean, they're pristine, they're safe. But for so long, we've just grown accustomed, especially since COVID and all of the riots of 2020, we've. We've just accepted mediocrity in our cities. And we've accepted that there's a certain amount of murder and crime and carjacking that's acceptable. And how do we know that this is the case? Because the D.C. police Department just fired about 13 officers for cooking the books on crime statistics. They were trying to make D.C. sound statistically safer while not actually making the city safer. What it took was Trump saying, okay, I'd like for people in my administration, tourists, people in government, to not have to worry for their lives when they walk to and from work, when they walk to and from public transit. Whereas you look at cities like Chicago and New York City, where are these famous horrific instances of illegal immigrants setting people on fire on public transit? That's why you're saying that, you know, the Trump administration can walk and chew gum, they can lower cost of living, lower gas prices, and also do the more mundane things like making cities not disgusting. But again, these, these cities were dangerous. And it's not just important here. I went to Memphis with Pam Bondi, peace be upon her, when she was Attorney General on the other side of the state from you, and the Trump administration had launched Operation Memphis Safe Task Force, where they flooded the zone in Memphis. This is a Democratic city. I don't think it's ever voted for Republican ever. This is not chock full of Trump voters. And they still measurably lowered the crime rate, lower the murder rate, things like that. Because if you're not safe to leave your house, that's going to have a ripple effect on the economy, that's going to destroy small businesses, that's going to destroy our public transit that no one will want to take anymore. So being safe, honestly, is like step number one to solving all the other cost of living issues. Gas prices don't matter. If you're going to be afraid to go fill your car up with gas.
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A
Yeah, Matt, we had you on last month and we talked about the kamikaze dolphins allegedly roaming the straight up Hormuz. Well, now our friends in China, they're saying that there are new, new dangerous sea creatures. They're alleging that there are militarized spy turtles, sea turtles and spy fish. What's going on here?
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G
This is important to be discussing. And I think that every time we discuss sort of weaponized animal, your show does provably and measurably better. So I'm glad that we're tackling this. I think that with China, the important way to look at China is to just watch the excellent TV show Black Mirror, because we look at that and think, wow, what A crazy technology that will obviously destroy society. And the Chinese watch Black Mirror and they think, oh, that's a great inspiration. That's something that we should do. And I think to the extent that they're weaponizing turtles over there, that's probably something similar that they're doing there. But I will say I am growing increasingly convinced that the Chinese military is not the power that it projects itself to be in terms of military manpower. They obviously decimated themselves by killing all of their girls in China, and they have a huge population ticking time bomb going off. So if they're now starting to train turtles, that makes me think that their ability to train humans is not what they would like for it to be. And you think about everything that's made in China we use in our day to day lives. It's all garbage. So if we think about what a weaponized turtle made in China is going to be able to do, it probably will not work either.
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A
We've heard the phrase paper tiger to describe the Chinese military. We're gonna have to start saying that the paper sea turtle, because that might be what they are.
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G
Maybe this is just some weird food thing.
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A
Matt Foldy, thank you so much for coming on, man. Really appreciate your time.
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G
Pleasure as always.
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A
All right, guys, in just a few moments, we're going to take a little tour here of the home of Ronald Reagan. It's going to be very fun, so stay tuned for that. But first, I want to bring on our good friend, a guy that I've been banging down the door trying to get on the show. So I'm very glad that we finally have him. Here it is Stephen Miller, host of the Versus Media podcast. You know him from his hilarious Twitter account, Red Steez. Stephen, it's great to have you on. Thanks for being here, man.
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H
Yeah, I was going to say it's your show, so, you know, you can. You can have me on whenever you want me, you know.
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A
Okay, I'm gonna hold you to that. This makes me happy. So, Stephen, let's start. Let's start with the Obama Presidential Library just opening up this week. There's a beautiful ceremony going on from this beautiful building. What do you think about this grand opening?
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H
It's like he never left. It's like he's still president. We had all of the celebrity base that he's popularized. We had Bono and the Edge, and all of the celebrities were there, and Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen and basically all the people that only mattered to him during his presidency. What you didn't see a lot of was kind of the Chicago people that his monolith Death Star displaced. But yeah, and then you also had the former presidents there, which was nice to see, but it really reminded me. It's like he was still president. Michelle Obama was still disappointed in us, and he went down the whole list of reasons that his administration led directly to Donald Trump.
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A
I want to play the clip at the opening of the ceremony where longtime Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett got up and spoke and addressed the crowd. Let's play that right now.
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F
We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today. We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe Way, the Odawa
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A
and the Potawatomi nations. I was not aware we were still doing these acknowledgments. Were you?
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G
Yeah.
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H
I think what's funny is normally when they do these, they do these at like hundred year old colleges and institutions, you know, with they built in the 1920s and 1910s when they claim to have stolen all of the land. This thing went under construction like three years ago. So you're admitting that you're on the stolen land and you went ahead and built the thing anyway. And that's my favorite thing about land acknowledgments. We acknowledge that we're on your land. Okay, give it back to us. Well, we're not going to do that. We're just going to build more stuff up there. And so anyway, here's some words that hopefully suit that over. This is another reason that I don't think I want to visit this place when it's built on top of a haunted Indian graveyard. No, that's bad mojo. I'm not going to be going to this.
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A
And that's the only thing keeping you there from visiting, I'm sure. Let's play another clip from the press tour for this grand opening where Michelle Obama had an interesting answer when asked about this new era of her life that's going viral. So let's roll that tape. One word to describe your next chapter. One word.
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Fun.
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Me.
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That's what you call drop the mic.
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D
You know what?
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C
You seem to be grading her higher on her answer.
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What do you think, Stephen?
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H
That's. I mean, that's been the chapter of every part of her life is just me. This, this is going to be about me. The Obama presidency, that was also about me. And yeah, she hates him. That's all I could get from this. Like, it's just like, you know, he's he's getting ready to open his presidential library. It's a great honor that every president does. I mean, there's some shenanigans with this in the National Arch. It's his big moment. It's his day in the sun is the library. We probably don't see these people that often again, although the Obamas are omnipresent. And then she just Leroy Jenkins her way in there to say this next chapter is about me. And she's done that for the most of the presidency. She talked about how she wasn't kind of the center of attention and she was in the background and she didn't want him to run for president to begin with. And she's in a house built by slaves. And again, we just continuously disappoint her.
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A
Yeah, and disappointment is the right word when you look at the way that the two of them look at each other. I wanna get to a topic that I know you're fired up about. I saw you had a great post on this on Twitter. White House Correspondents association recently electing a new leader. Tell us your thoughts on this new leader. Who do we have taken over?
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H
Yeah, if you're familiar with my podcast, this is a top issue of mine. I talk about this a ton. Well, Courtney Sub, formerly of the Bloomberg and the LA Times, was just elected to be the White House Correspondents Association President. So it's the peers also in the White House correspondents that elected her to the job for a year term. I think it's next year. And if you remember, in April 20th of 2023, Biden held a press conference in the Rose Garden with the President of South Korea. And during that press conference, two US based reporters were allowed questions and then two South Korean reporters. Courtney Subramanian was the first reporter who got up and asked Joe Biden a question. And then what we found out through telephoto photography is her question was already in Joe Biden's hands and it was typed up. There was her headshot, the pronunciation of her name, and then the words you and your in capital letters just because Joe Biden can't remember who he is. And then at the top was written question one. And then what we also learned was Mary Bruce of ABC News got the second question and a note card with her question was produced later after Biden's presidency. And so what this revealed is on some level there is collusion happening between the Biden White House and reporters in the White House Correspondents Association. Kelly o' Donnell of NBC denied that this ever Happens. Well, we know that it happens. We have photographic evidence. This is not some wild claim being made by conservatives. And so she's never had to account for this situation. How does a question pre typed up that she asked and it was a pretty anodyne question. It was on subconverters and trade. How does that happen? Who is she coordinating with in the White House? My suspicion is at the time Ben LaBolt was the communications director as well as special advisor to the President. And she used Ben LaBolt as a source for several stories. So what this shows is the kind of thing that we talk about a lot, which is media collusion with the Democratic Party and Democratic presidents. And she's never answered for this. I've emailed her a few times never getting an answer. Alex Thompson's book and Jake Tapper's book on the Biden cover up supposed never mentions this. Karine Jean Pierre got three mentions in that book and she was the press secretary at the time. The most Alex Thompson has ever pressed on this was by Ryan Gardurski where he said that note card was just a one, one off thing. Well, we know it's not a one off thing. We know it happened at least twice. And so what? That shows a few things. It shows, did the White House not trust Biden to answer a spontaneous question. You have Donald Trump who takes 50 questions on an airplane when he's being jet sent around the world. It also shows the White House or the press corps is in some ways colluding with the White House. And so this to me is one of the biggest media scandals that we still have. There was no investigation to how this happened. She was not suspended, she was not fired. And that what we learned is that she was promoted and in that promotion she's elected, which means they all might be in on it too. And so that to me is why this is still a scandal.
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A
Yeah. Such an important story that, as you've said, is not getting a ton of attention. We're glad that you're covering it on Versus Media podcast.
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H
I'm not going to shut up about
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it, so I'm glad that you aren't
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H
because hey, hey, congrats.
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A
Accountability, we love it, right?
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H
Hey, congrats to you on this whole deal. Like, I know that you launched this a while ago and so I'm happy to be on here with you and you know I'll come back anytime.
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A
We will have you back, Stephen. I am 100% confident of that.
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H
I'll try to do it.
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Always a pleasure.
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H
I'll try to do a bolo next
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time in honor of us being here in the home of Ronald Reagan. A bolo tie would be great.
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H
And foldy. And foldy Wearing his.
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A
Yes.
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G
Thanks, Kevin.
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A
Yeah, fold accounts, too. Thanks, Steven. All right, well, I'm very excited for this next part because we are going to get a little walk around Ronald Reagan's home. I saw some of our audience in the chat asking if this was a green screen. This is not a green screen and I'm going to prove it. And we are going to get to talk with Andrew Coffin, director of the Reagan Ranch and VP of Young America's Foundation. So let's get up and walk around a bit. All right, I'm going to take my mic off. I'm going to take my earpiece out. All right.
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C
All right.
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A
We got a new mic here. Come on, let's do this thing. Andrew, great to see you. Thank you for. Thank you for hosting us. So can you just explain to us where we're standing right now because this is so cool. I've had chills multiple times today.
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B
So we're staying at Ronald Reagan's home. He bought it in 1974. This was the Western White House during all eight years of the presidency. And they're home for about 25 years. It's an 1872 Adobe that he barely changed when he bought it. He enclosed a screened in porch, but it's about 1800 square feet. No central air, no central heat, just two fireplaces. This is him.
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A
Yeah, it is him. Because as we walked in, you were showing us on the ground. There was this beautiful path that you said that he had put rocks in his jeep and driven over to build this path. Tell us about the bookshelf, though, because this is what stuck out to me. I'm going to let you talk and Colton's going to kind of give the audience a view of the bookshelf. What are we looking at here behind us?
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B
So there are so many great stories to highlight here. And everything about this place reflects him and it's all original. That's the amazing thing about the ranch. This is just as he left it. It's as if he closed the door, locked the key and turned it over to Young America's Foundation. A few books that we love to talk about, but one in particular is from his childhood. It's called that printer view Dells. It's by Harold Bellwright. It's a little green and red volume, if you can get that on the camera. Tiny little book that he saved from his Childhood. This is a book that his mother gave him when he was 11 years old. During a particularly difficult moment in Ronald Reagan's young life. He comes home one day and finds his father passed out drunk in the snow in front of their home. And he has to help drag his father inside so he doesn't freeze to death. And his mother, Nell, who really was the solid rock of their family and it had so much to do with his spiritual and character formation. Nell gives him this book as an encouragement. The book is a fictional story, but it really is almost eerie how much the story of the protagonist ends up mirroring Ronald Reagan's real life. It's a young man who has alcoholism in his family. Struggling with meaning and purpose. He comes to faith and then gets involved in local community debates, including, this is some foreshadowing about the meaning and purpose of of welfare, whether it should be a handout or a hand up. And by the end of the book, he's elected to Congress and is headed back to Washington D.C. the young Ronald Reagan walks over to his mom after finishing the book and says, I want to be like that man and I want to be baptized. He's then baptized there in the first Christian Church just down the road in Dixon.
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A
Such a cool story. And as you mentioned, Young America's foundation. When you guys took this place over, you didn't touch anything. And I've been in a lot of historical homes and a lot of times you walk through, it feels very sanitized. It's kind of like how much of this is original. We were in the kitchen earlier and I was looking at the spice rack and there were all of these half used jars of spices that, as you said, have not been touched. So talk to us about some of the other stuff in the house that was just left exactly as it was.
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B
So you know, as I say, when I say everything about this place reflects Ronald Reagan. I mean, that's true down to the tiles on the floors, these linoleum squares that Ronald Reagan himself laid with the help of a few friends. As you mentioned, he built the patio, he built the telephone pole fencing that surrounds the home. And then everything else you see here is just as he left it. So his clothes are hanging in the closet. If we walk up to the tack bar and you see his saddles and chainsaws, all his ranch tools, his beloved 1962 Willys Jeep just as he left it, this is a place that is not ostentatious. In fact, you won't find pictures of him with world leaders or from his Hollywood days. It's very simple. It's very humble. It is very much reflective of the leader we knew and loved.
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A
Yeah. You were telling us earlier about some of the world leaders who had come here. Margaret Thatcher had come through here, Queen Elizabeth came. But what stuck out was when you said that when Gorbachev came, in no uncertain terms, he made clear he wasn't a big fan of the place. Tell us about that.
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G
Right.
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The queen came up on a terrible day, pouring rain. She said the weather reminded her of home. Gorbachev. So she was very polite. Gorbachev, you know, not unexpectedly, was put off by the place. He gets up to the top of the hill, and he said he expected to find a palace. And, of course, that is not what you find here at Rancho del Ciello. It's the ranch in the sky. It's a spectacular scenery. It's trails that Ronald Reagan worked and loved. But it's a very simple home. And I think for a Soviet leader who's used to, you know, these elaborate retreats on the Black Sea that only the Soviet elite had access to. So it was very strange that the leader of the free world would be content with a place like this.
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My favorite story of getting to talk to you today, because we walked through the house, and there are a number of firearms, which is pretty cool. Colton, can we zoom in on the rifle above one of the doors over there? But there are a number of firearms, as you said, President Reagan was not. And we can actually just both walk over here. President Reagan, as you said, was not a big hunter, but he enjoyed target practice. You have to tell the story of a little incident that took place on this property that made some. Some Secret Service people mad.
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Yeah, this. This is a. This is a funny one. And I'll. I'll try to keep it short. So, yeah, like, firearms, target practice. Not a big hunter, but there was a heron that was eating the fish out of his pond and just driving him nuts. And so one day, very early in his first term in office, he sees that bird land up the hill near the tack barn. And so he walks in the house, over the gun cabinet, pulls out a pistol, sticks in the waistband of his pants. So nobody knows the President of the United States is now armed. Walks out of the house, across the lawn, gets to the top of the hill, pulls out the gun, and fires, because the bird is still there. So there's a Secret Service agent named John Barletta who's standing post, and he's the one who shared this story with Us. John had so many great stories, and he's seen what's just happened. He knows the gravity of the situation. There's a gunshot echoing through the mountains, and he immediately gets on his race to calm everybody down. He says, rawhide shot. Rawhide is the President's code name. He's trying to communicate that Rawhide took the shot. Sounds maybe a little bit too much like Rawhide has been shot. Not the best way to put things in the heat of the moment. There's all this commotion, people descending on the President from all directions, and the President's still holding the gun. He looks over at John. He says, well, I guess I should have told you I was gonna do that, huh?
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You can hear Reagan's voice saying that story, which is one of the things I love. Can I put you on the spot and ask you to go get something that you showed the warranty slip. I'm gonna let you go grab that. I'm gonna stall for a bit. I'll let Colton keep looking around the room. Guys, my. My favorite little anecdote, and this was really cool, too. This was a handwritten note that President Reagan had done to describe his vision for this little window here and some of the. The work. But can you explain to us what this document is?
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We're gonna.
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You guys. Will you guys all bear with us where the camera's moving around a little bit? But this is too cool not to explain what this document is. This is so cool.
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So I'll hold it up for a second and then talk about it. So Ronald Reagan purchased a wine cellar, refrigerated wine cellar, while he was President of the United States. They were having some issues with wine spoiling in the heat up here at the ranch. In fact, we believe they may have
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even
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served Queen Elizabeth some spoiled wine. So pretty good incentive to buy a new wine cellar. So he buys the cellar. When it's received, he fills out the warranty card that came along with it himself, as Ronald Reagan would do. It includes his name, Ronald Reagan, his address. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And then if you can make this out here, ask for the profession of the purchaser. And he writes in public employee, the
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President of the United States, writing down. What's your address? 1600 Penn Ave. No big deal. And it also. It reminds me of my. My own grandparents who lived through the Great Depression. And they were constantly. They weren't throwing things away. They were, you know, trying to fix it or they were getting a warranty, things of this nature. And just such a cool example of President Reagan there. Thank you so much for showing us around the house. I'm going to ask you to stick around for a bit because we're about to do a live Q and A with our Daily Wire members. So if you want to join the live Q and A, you got to be a Daily Wire member. Go to daily wire.com subscribe. But if you're on Apple and Spotify, you're not a Daily Wire member. Thank you guys so much for tuning in to Wired In. We'll see you guys on Monday from here at the beautiful Reagan Ranch. Thanks for tuning in, Sam.